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A 30% cut for steam games sold on steam and a 0% cut for steam keys sold by the publisher wherever they want with the caveat that they must give steam users the same sales at around the same time. They get their games hosted on Steam’s industry best CDN, a page with support for images and videos, an API with features users like, workshop API for mod hosting and delivery, and other SteamWorks API stuff for stuff like multiplayer, patch management without charging a fee for it, forum hosting to hit the highlights. Pretty much all of that drives engagement and is mostly turn-key though you do have to programmatically interact with their API when it makes sense.

Steam provides a lot of benefit for a 30% cut of what is sold on their store front and a lot more benefit for getting all of the above for a 0% cut if they sell steam keys outside of steam.

Because money.

It is likely someone using the same VPN service using the same server or server on the same subnet was scraping data or similar and got blocked. Therefore you are too.

It doesn’t sound so terrible. Just tracks upsells for a bonus, right? Think about what happens every single time with technology like this. It will definitely be used to create metrics on virtually everything an employee does and continue to press upward.

If this goes unchallenged expect things like cameras watching everything you do. White collars have cameras aimed at their faces and keyboards, blue collars have them on their job sites. You’ll need to meet hard metrics to be considered at the bare minimum and also compete with others for raises/bonuses based on the data. The top competitors push the mean metrics up and up.

It wasn’t that long ago when employers were demanding not only their employees’ social media username and passwords but also applicants. Some states passed laws specifically banning that, which was helpful and thankfully some of those states were key states where many corporations are incorporated for the immense tax breaks and also thankfully people just made it ineffective by creating obvious dummy accounts.

Workers rights in the US much like consumer rights aren’t that great compared to other nations. Unions are trying hard to make a big come back but are being hard fought. There are big companies that continue to illegally union bust that aren’t held accountable at all.

Companies do not need this to remain competitive and survive. They need this to maximize profits. Please consider these types of issues when you vote and write your representatives about these things going forward.

I disagree about ClamAV in-so-far as its vanilla virus signature database. You really should use some third party ones though you have to be careful since some like specifically malware patrol are way too general. For example, malware patrol will identify any document mentioning any drive.google.com URL a virus.

In regards to MP, I actually submitted the offending signature to MP support and the CSR told said and I quote “Unfortunately that is not a false positive, there is confirmed malware hosted at drive.google.com.” It caught my attention because a bunch of READMEs from some github projects and some HTML files ended up in the quarantine. I asked if future signatures would include this general URL since I’m going to blacklist this specific signature and was told basically ‘yes, probably’.

I do recommend third parties though and most are free for personal use. Some require a key and therefore some sort of sign up but it isn’t terrible except perhaps in regards to where I’m posting, some would consider it so.

For Windows you can use KDE Connect (and also MacOS) or Microsoft Phone.

For Linux Mint there’s KDE Connect or GSConnect (GNOME Extension) though I don’t use GNOME often, I remember liking KDE Connect better still.

OK

Your immutable OS stays stable. For example, running a sudo pacman -Syu with a bunch of stuff from AUR in your Arch container for example will not bring down your OS or otherwise make it unstable. The immutable image you first install has been tested and it is the same image as the testers – same with the upgrades and updates, so long as you don’t overlap the image with rpm-ostree in this case.

Immutability keeps your OS stable and if something does happen to go wrong, you just roll it back.

If that isn’t something you need/want then that’s not something you need/want.

Yes, though keep in mind containers aren’t like VMs so the hardware isn’t virtualized or anything. The root system and everything in it is still immutable as well. In usage, it doesn’t matter for the container but it isn’t changing the root since what is writable to the container is outside of the root.

Using containers this way is the way Silverblue was intended to be used for by the user and pretty much any other immutable distro of note.

Are you saying you can’t use toolbox or distrobox for that?

You should be installing software with stuff like flatpak, toolbox or distrobox. If you treat the immutable image as a mutable one there really isn’t an improvement except for less of a chance of instability of updating/changing software that’s running in memory already.

YouTube, Facebook, forums and pretty much any echo chamber. Pretty much anything that has replaced AM radio and shitty newsletters. In the ~2020’s also parroting politicians – I’m sure I don’t need to go over the last 4 years of examples, so how about the Bowling Green massacre that never happened?

In short, his argument in court is that the lack of evidence is evidence of criminal intent.

In a memo sent to employees Mozilla says it wants to bring “trustworthy AI into Firefox”. To help it do this sooner it’s merging its Pocket, content, and AI/Ml teams.

That’s pretty concerning. It could go either way but I assume they are going to try to shove more sponsored content in an effort to further monetize Firefox in spite of getting hundreds of millions of dollars a year in donations. Maybe I’m just cynical about Mozilla though.

LibreOffice is compatible with Microsoft’s OOXML spec. They sold every suite on it in the nearly 20 years ago to stop fines from the EU. They sold competing suites on it instead of using anything else available.

Microsoft however never actually fully supported their own spec and will save as “OOXML Transition” or whatever they call it now because they’ve been in ‘transition’ for nearly 20 years but still have proprietary blobs inside of it. You can however make MS Office save in OOXML Strict which is supposed to be compliant to the now ISO spec that LibreOffice actually supports.

This isn’t LibreOffice’s fault.

Can’t wait for a story from a developer or sysadmin that knows how all the duct tape is held together, gets laid off and refuses to come back to fix everything. Then the former employer doubles doubt and threatens to sue them for loss of revenue. It would be absurd but I expect the absurd now.

Good call. Here’s a snapshot of scroogled.com in 2013 from the wayback machine.

Google goes through every Gmail that’s sent or received, looking for keywords so they can target Gmail users with paid ads. And there’s no way to opt out of this invasion of your privacy. Outlook.com is different—we don’t go through your email to sell ads.

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Remember when Microsoft pushed hard on marketing “don’t be Scroogled” for this stuff?